Maurizio Omologo obtained the Degree in Electrical Engineering at University of Padova (Italy) in 1984. From 1984 to 1987, he was researcher on speech coding at CSELT (Torino, Italy). In 1988, he joined ITC-irst (now FBK-irst), where he is the head of SHINE (Speech-acoustic scene analysis and interpretation) research unit (http://shine.fbk.eu).